Harvest Mage
Creature — Human Spellshaper
, 
, Discard a card: Until end of turn, if you tap a land for mana, it produces one mana of a color of your choice instead of any other type and amount.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #28101
Harvest Mage trades a land drop for two mana of any color — a meaningful ceiling that requires you to already be flooding, which is the exact moment you least need the help. It's a narrow mana-fixing tool that rarely earns its slot over a land that just produces colored mana for free.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Harvest Mage is a fringe inclusion in four- and five-color decks that expect to flood on basic Forests and need a specific off-color pip in the late game — a narrow use case that most greedy mana bases solve more reliably with a Arcane Signet or a dual land. In Legacy and Vintage, the effect is simply too slow and conditional to compete with the free or near-free mana fixing those formats support. Pauper is its most plausible home: color-fixing at common is a real resource, and a mage that converts surplus land drops into any color has genuine value in multicolor brews where duals are unavailable.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Harvest Mage is pure bulk — the price reflects demand, and demand is low. It won't appreciably gain value without a specific combo or mechanic that rewards sacrificing lands entering wider circulation.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.